Summer – Page 2 – Life's a Trip

Summer

The Perseids, a wedding party, and a man named Danny

13 Aug 201813 Aug 2018

TRÉCESSON, QC — We arrived in Amos after dark and under cloudy skies the night the Perseid meteor shower peaked. It had taken us nine hours to do a seven-hour…

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Along for the ride at Fat Lenny’s punk rock candy shop

6 Sep 201712 Jan 2018

ERIE, Pa. — We knew something cool was going to happen before we even stepped into Fat Lenny’s. We knew it because it was called Fat Lenny’s, but also because…

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Randyland: A peaceful excursion in Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets

21 Aug 201727 Sep 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3djRXvvr8 PITTSBURGH — The unique art space The Mattress Factory was already there, and so was the Andy Warhol Museum, so Randy Gilson didn’t exactly step into a void when…

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Ray’s Hill Tunnel and its abandoned Pennsylvania turnpike

14 Aug 201721 Aug 2017

BREEZEWOOD, Pa. — I had driven through the night, fueled by coffee and restored by an hour-long nap at a “unique area” in New York. I had detoured us to…

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Walking the abandoned rail bridge of North Anson

1 Aug 201616 Aug 2016

NORTH ANSON, Maine Sometimes you have to put off spontaneity. Like the time I rounded a corner and there was the most amazing rocky river and around the next bend…

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Tantramar FM hosts a community over radio waves

29 Jul 20161 Aug 2016

AMHERST, N.S. The word eclectic is in their mission statement, so it’s no wonder I got a kick out of Tantramar FM. The sign on the side of their building…